“…In the past decades, there have been many studies of the creep rupture phenomena through direct experiments (Liu and Ross, 1996;Guarino et al, 2002;Lockner, 1998) as well as through different models (Miguel et al, 2002;Ciliberto et al, 2001;Kun et al, 2003;Hidalgo et al, 2002;Main, 2000;Politi et al, 2002;Pradhan and Chakrabarti, 2004;Turcotte et al, 2003;Shcherbakov and Turcotte, 2003;Vujosevic and Krajcinovic, 1997;Saichev and Sornette, 2005). If a lot of works were devoted to homogeneous materials like metals (Ishikawa et al, 2002) and ceramics (Goretta et al, 2001;Morita and Hiraga, 2002) many recent studies are concerned with heterogeneous materials like composites and rocks (Liu and Ross, 1996;Guarino et al, 2002;Lockner, 1998). Understanding failure properties of composite materials is important because of the increasing number of applications in engineering structures, such as aerospace, biomedical and civil engineering infrastructure.…”